Legal Opinion

Johns v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided July 17, 1991No. 90-02449PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

PATTERSON, Judge.

The appellant challenges his judgment and sentence for aggravated battery entered upon revocation of his probation. We find merit only in the appellant’s argument that the trial court erred in sentencing him to four and one-half years in prison to be followed by eleven and one-half years’ probation, since the combined sentence exceeds the statutory maximum of fifteen years for a second-degree felony. § 775.082(3)(c), Fla.Stat. (1989); Coleman v. State, 496 So.2d 896 (Fla. 2d DCA 1986).

Accordingly, we remand this case to the trial court for the correction of the appellant’s…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Coleman v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1986

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Howard v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1997

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